Population (2010) 436 Introduction One of the communities in southern Illinois' Little Egypt, Thebes is a small river town that grew up next to one of the most treacherous parts of the river to navigate. History A small cluster of houses that had initially been known
Just south of Cape Girardeau (Missouri), the Mississippi River cuts a seven-mile gorge through the thick limestone of the Shawneetown Ridge. The gorge, known as the Thebes Gap or the Grand Chain, is as narrow as 3,000 feet in places and was notoriously difficult to navigate, at least until the Army Corps of Engineers began blasting
